Cancer Bats: Indie Rockers Fleet Foxes Inspired Their Upcoming Album

Toronto’s Cancer Bats have just finished recording for their fourth album, tentatively titled ‘Dead Set on Living,’ and lead singer Liam Cormier says he’s been looking outside the heavy music universe for inspiration.

“In a lot of ways we get really inspired by non-metal bands,” Cormier, whose band has covered the likes of Tegan and Sara and the Faint, tells Spinner. “For me, I find I really like looking at other things because I just don’t want to make a traditional hardcore record lyrically. So for me, I listen to a lot of indie rock and I’ve been getting super psyched on a lot of that, like the new ‘Helplessness Blues’ by Fleet Foxes…”